Several years ago at one of our Good Company lunches, as woman in her 80’s shared that she was trying to discover her life purpose. At the time I thought to myself, “That’s sad to be in your 80’s and still seeking your life purpose.” Now at almost 71, I find myself in the same situation: what is my life purpose?
Recently, pretty much anything I do doesn’t seem to work. Over the years, I’ve learned to take baby steps in a direction and see what happens. If I seem to get a positive response, I take another step. If I get a negative response, I reassess what I’m doing or the way I’m doing it. What’s especially interesting to me is that I know others who are experiencing the same thing so I don’t think I’m the exception in this experience. It seems that many of us are reassessing ourselves and the work we came here to do.
I remember being asked this question at a seminar I gave in Barcelona, Spain. “How do I know what my life purpose is?” My response was, “Your life purpose is to be you. How you ‘be you’ can change forms many times. But your basic life purpose is to be who you came here to be. Your life purpose has little to do with your profession or career and everything to do with who you are as your core self.”
Great advice! My former astrologer Libby Kresky who is now happily on the other side, at the beginning of every year’s chart update would ask me, “Who are you apart from your work? That’s what you have to find out.” I guess that’s what I’m still doing! Who am I apart from my work?
When I can answer that, I will have discovered my life purpose.
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